Case Law Analysis
|Allahabad High Court
CrPC 116 | Delay Condoned for Illiterate, Landless Petitioners Due to Lawyer’s Illness and Legal Ignorance : Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court condoned a seven-year delay in filing an appeal under CrPC 116 for 12 landless, illiterate petitioners, recognizing that their failure to act stemmed from their lawyer’s illness and complete lack of legal awareness. The court’s decision affirms that procedural rigidity must yield to substantive justice when poverty and vulnerability undermine access to legal recourse, setting a vital precedent for marginalized litigants.